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  1. NP Dilemma

    LadysSolo replied to NPdilema's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Psych NPs are in great demand where I live also. Just an FYI, I live in an at-will state, and was let go from my position (10 years in the NP position) due to my age ("If you accept our severance...

  2. Retirement at what age, and how much $$ will you will need to retire "comfortably"?

    LadysSolo replied to Horseshoe's topic in General Nursing

    I will work full-time till Medicare eligible, then 4 days/week till age 70, then per diem. I have pretty good savings, I have (roughly) $3000/month available, and my house will be paid off before I am...

  3. CNAs sleeping on the job... What can I do as a new nurse?

    LadysSolo replied to jessica0rae's topic in First Year After Licensure

    When I worked 11 - 7, you were permitted to nap ON YOUR BREAK (because it was YOUR break,) but after your break you were to be up and working. Perhaps approach it as "Break time is over, this needs to...

  4. Help! I feel like I made a mistake

    LadysSolo replied to dukeRN92's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You worked on a step down neuro unit so you knew what you were getting into, so I don't think it's nursing (although I could be wrong.) But rotating shifts is very hard on the body, there have been...

  5. Can I be a nurse with a bad back?

    LadysSolo replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I hurt my back 28 years ago catching a patient who was falling, I was an RN at the time, declared permanently partially disabled, and still work full time. I became an NP 13 years ago due to believing...

  6. How big of an error would you consider this?

    LadysSolo replied to selfiessuck's topic in General Nursing

    I find other patient's information misfiled in charts all the time - It is not unusual, so unless it is a habit, I would think printing out wrong MAR/TAR is an "oops!" And why did the paramedics not...

  7. My DON accused me of patient abandonment during a snowstorm

    LadysSolo replied to NurseScorpio88's topic in General Nursing

    Never ever work without malpractice insurance - it is money well spent, so you can have the lawyer take care of issues like this. I (thankfully) have never had to use it in 36 years, but at (about)...

  8. Accepting verbal orders from another nurse?

    LadysSolo replied to amberrenae, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree - if it was someone I had worked with every day for several years and I knew them well and trusted their judgment, then probably (and because we usually knew quite a bit about each other's...

  9. 3 nursing jobs in 2 years. Unhirable?

    LadysSolo replied to LPNewbie's topic in General Nursing

    LPNewbie, I am an NP and also teach in an LPN program. I also have suffered from depression since age 14 (that I can remember, probably longer.) I started getting help for it when I was almost 40...

  10. Most Pressing Issues in Nursing Today

    LadysSolo replied to pmcgrady's topic in General Nursing

    Probably works at the "house of God" in Cleveland, which (as a fellow Ohioan) I don't think is as wonderful as the worshipers seem to think it

  11. Most Pressing Issues in Nursing Today

    LadysSolo replied to pmcgrady's topic in General Nursing

    The healthcare system is not interested because they have already done the math, if they cut "x" number of nurses they will save "y" number of dollars, and "z" number of people will die. There will be...

  12. Sedation

    LadysSolo replied to ILoveHorses's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I just don't see why giving sedation should be "routine," without at least trying without it. Less medications (and risk for adverse reactions) the

  13. 3 nursing jobs in 2 years. Unhirable?

    LadysSolo replied to LPNewbie's topic in General Nursing

    Your management will RARELY give a **** about you. Your co-workers might, but you almost never get a thank-you, we used to be told "work it out among yourselves, but someone has to stay." We never...

  14. 3 nursing jobs in 2 years. Unhirable?

    LadysSolo replied to LPNewbie's topic in General Nursing

    Agency is a good way to see what facilities are REALLY like before you get hired there. Sometimes if you are good at a facility they will offer you a job. When I did agency for a few months, I was...

  15. Staff Retention Policies

    LadysSolo replied to Positive_Outlook's topic in General Nursing

    This happened at a SNF I cover - the STNAs kept telling the DON that there would be fewer falls with one more staff member. The DON LISTENED and did a study, and found out that with one additional...

  16. Staff Retention Policies

    LadysSolo replied to Positive_Outlook's topic in General Nursing

    Can I please like this a thousand times? This says it all - treat me like a human being trying to do a good job with what little resources I have, and have my back when (if) something goes wrong due...

  17. Sedation

    LadysSolo replied to ILoveHorses's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I've put lots of IVs in pediatric patient over the years, just usually ask the parents to leave the room and the kids are usually better (older

  18. Responsible for 132 clients and Working during breaks

    LadysSolo replied to Nroh's topic in General Nursing

    I believe it could be a Federal violation also, unpaid wages would mean they have not been withholding and paying matching Social Security, and not withholding income tax and unemployment and Worker's...

  19. The ridiculousness of LTC/SNF

    LadysSolo replied to YUKONrn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I am looking to go to one of the nursing homes I have been covering as an NP for the last 10 or so years to work when I semi-retire. I know their staffing patterns and their resident mix, and it will...

  20. Coworker problem

    LadysSolo replied to Nurse071094's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, whenever I sent a patient to ICU it was STAT -not whenever you get a minute. Don't trust your co-worker, you will be going "under the

  21. High School Shooter Copy Cats?

    LadysSolo replied to guest83140's topic in School

    Kids aren't safe at home either - parental/significant other abuse, drive-by shootings, parents/boyfriends/girlfriends on drugs/ETOH, watching domestic violence to where it becomes normalized - life...

  22. Stress level: RN vs. NP

    LadysSolo replied to NEMurse95's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    It's a different kind of stress being an NP, and it depends on where you work and the kind of practice you work for, your boss, etc. but at least in my case, it's ALWAYS been "productivity,...

  23. My own family is the PITA in the hospital

    LadysSolo replied to Dances with wool's topic in General Nursing

    I too would be mortified. Do they have wives that tolerate/reinforce spoiled brat behavior? My son (age 31) knows I would smack him up alongside the head if he acted like that (I am his mother, he...

  24. Money is tight

    LadysSolo replied to Nursebry91's topic in Nurses Recovery

    You know I think from reading most of these threads that most of the rehab comes from the support the nurses going through these monitoring programs give each other here. And the programs are...

  25. Responsible for 132 clients and Working during breaks

    LadysSolo replied to Nroh's topic in General Nursing

    This happened to me before I became a nurse (was a waitress,) we were expected to clock out for breaks and at the end of our shift and then still stay to clean the place. They got hit for extreme back...